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Notes on India’s default risk
Rating agencies models have come under severe scrutiny in the recent years after their track record on issues related to the sub-prime crisis. In Financial E...
Why Private Equity in India?
Ajay Shah makes a great point in the context of family run businesses that effective management is one of the best reasons for thriving PE industry in India....
As an hedge fund analyst
What does your job entail? I am an analyst for a long short equity hedge fund. My main responsibility is to advise my portfolio manager on investment decisio...
Android development on Samsung Galaxy:
I got a new phone - Samsung i7500 Galaxy. Looks like it is going to be more fun than my older phones. 1. Samsung i7500 Galaxy runs the Android 1.5 platform. ...
Linchpin - Seth Godin - Summary
Quieting the lizard brain How can I explain the never ending irrationality of human behavior? We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to...
Personal development for smart people - summary
Seek truth with open eyes. Courageously accept your discoveries and their consequences. Rid your life of falsehood, denial, and fear of what is. Make truth y...
Future of artists
Seth Godin talk about artists and their leverage in the new connected world. Today, I listened to Sophie Madeleine. She is so talented. She chose to sell her...
Clustering stocks in a sector
Quantitative clustering techniques solely rely on grouping a bunch of stocks based on returns and their correlations, seems to fail while trying to classify ...
Getting started with quantmod
I got quantmod installed on R at work and home couple of months ago. Here are the instructions for installing them from the R command line. install.packages(...